Southern Railway

All of the Southern Railway photos where taken in the New Orleans and surrounding area.

A high nose GP-9 is shoving a pair of Southern cabooses into the house track on the St. Claude end of Oliver Yard in New Orleans, LA this September 24, 1981 day.(Click on image for full size view)

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This GP-38 is shoving two pristine helium cars towards the diesel shop on May 23, 1983 at the Oliver yard in New Orleans, LA. I guess the last time I saw a helium car it was in Amarillo, TX two years ago. (Click on image for full size view)

A pair of F-Units are seen at the Oliver yard fuel rack. The engines were in town on December 6, 1991 for a NRHS fan trip. The engine in the foreground is a GP-38. (Click on image for full size view)

According to the Diesel Locomotive Roster for the time, the trio of B36-7's represents half of the six the Southern owned. I was told by a diesel shop mechanic the reason GE's were scarce in the New Orleans area is because they did not have the special greases used on the GE's. Southern's GE's were rare in New Orleans. (Click on image for full size view)

Northbound Southern train 222 is seen passing NE Tower where the Southern crosses the L&N. The shadow in the foreground is cast by the interstate (I-10) passing overhead. (Click on image for full size view)

Returning eastbound towards Oliver yard on October 7, 1983, is this GP-38 with a "rocket" car in tow, passing over the 17th Street canal. (Click on image for full size view)

Two high nose GP-30's leads this April 21, 1987 train from Houston. Directly behind the engines are six new M1A1 Abrem tanks on DODX flats. (Click on image for full size view)

Another trio of Southern GE's is seen here headed south at Wills Jct on the MP, in Waggaman, LA, just north of Avondale on December 1, 1983. They were so new that the 3500's were not in my diesel roster book. (Click on image for full size view)